PASSAT

Data service ecosystem for the digital product passport

Project description
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) offers great potential for innovation - both for greater sustainability and for the development of new business models and sources of income. The Austrian-German flagship project PASSAT (Data Service Ecosystem for the Digital Product Passport) aims to facilitate the use of the DPP and supports companies in fully utilising its potential.

A particular focus is on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which often face challenges when it comes to implementing new regulations or building up the necessary expertise and technical infrastructure.

PASSAT develops easily transferable concepts and technical building blocks to solve current business issues based on specific use cases. This will not only create a practice-orientated guideline and a concrete basis for future DPP implementations - the project will already have a noticeable impact on the industry during its term. The results will also be incorporated into scientific publications and contributions to standardisation and regulatory bodies. In this way, PASSAT contributes to the Europe-wide dissemination of tried and tested approaches.

PASSAT emerged from a call for funding from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure (BMIMI), in which research institutions and companies from Germany were also able to participate. The project addresses key challenges that were previously identified in the BMK-funded study "DPP4ALL - A Digital Product Passport for All".

Consortium
Germany: Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (Consortium leader Germany); EAW-Relaistechnik GmbH
Österreich: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (Consortium leader Austria); Secontrade GmbH; CANCOM Austria AG; ABC Research GmbH; Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.; JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH; Universität für Weiterbildung Krems; ATOMIC Austria GmbH; onlim GmbH; GS1 Austria GmbH; V-TRION GmbH; Grabher Group GmbH; Industrie 4.0 Österreich - die Plattform für intelligente Produktion; WINTERSTEIGER Sports GmbH; nexyo GmbH; Löffler GmbH; Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH; silana GmbH; FRONIUS INTERNATIONAL GmbH

Duration
February 2025 – January 2028

Budget (Germany)
Total costs: 492.947 €
Funding volume: 403.291 €